Caledon River
The Caledon River is a major river located in central South Africa. Its total length is 642 km, rising in the Drakensberg Mountains on the Lesotho border, flowing southwestward and then westward before joining the Orange River near Bethulie in the southern Free State.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river
- Also known as: “Mechachaneng”, “Mohokare River”, and “Wilhelminarivier”
Caledon River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Lesotho, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Caledon River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Caledonrivier”
- Afrikaans: “Wilhelminarivier”
- Arabic: “نهر كاليدون”
- Asturian: “Ríu Caledon”
- Belarusian: “Каледон”
- Belarusian: “рака Каледон”
- Cebuano: “Mohokare”
- Chinese: “卡利登河”
- Croatian: “Caledon”
- Dutch: “Caledonrivier”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كاليدون”
- French: “Caledon”
- Georgian: “კალედონი”
- German: “Caledon”
- Hebrew: “קלדון”
- Irish: “Abhainn Caledon”
- Italian: “Caledon”
- Japanese: “カレドン川”
- Lithuanian: “Kaledonas”
- Northern Frisian: “Caledon Struum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Caledon”
- Ossetian: “Каледон”
- Persian: “رود کالدون”
- Persian: “رودخانه کالیدون”
- Polish: “Caledon”
- Portuguese: “Rio Caledon”
- Russian: “Каледон”
- South Azerbaijani: “کالیدون چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Caledon”
- Spanish: “Río Caledon”
- Swahili: “Mto Caledon”
- Ukrainian: “Вільгельміна (річка)”
- Ukrainian: “Каледон”
- Ukrainian: “Могокарі”
- Venetian: “Fiume Caledon”
- Welsh: “Afon Caledon”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Caledon River”. Photo: Graham Maclachlan, CC BY-SA 3.0.